22
(3:)
C.5.0.
2888 of 1887.
$240.
C.S.D.
2895 of 1887,
and
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two hundred and forty Dollars as an allowance for a Mandarin Teacher for Messrs. MAY and SERCOMBE SMITH, at the rate of $20 per month.
This was inadvertently omitted in the Registrar General's Estimates for 1888.
Government House, Hongkong, 27th February, 1888.
1
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
(4.)
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Twenty-four Dollars, as
ses, additional pay to the Gate-keeper of the Government Civil Hospital.
56 of 1988. 821.
The salary of the late Chinese Gate-keeper was $8 per month, the Superintendent recom- mended that an Indian should be employed at the salary of $10 per month.
Government House, Hongkong, 27th February, 1888.
The Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer seconded.
Question--put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED THE TREES PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.
Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED THE RATING ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Treasurer moved the first reading of this
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED THE REGULATION OF CHINESE ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.
Bill reported with amendments.
ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned to Monday, the 5th proximo, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 5th day of March, 1888.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM Des Vœux,
Governor.